Fund Education, Sign Our Agreement To Preserve Nigeria’s Future, ASUU Tells FG

Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Thursday, tasked the  Federal Government to  fund education and sign ASUU agreement to preserve Nigeria’s future
The union in a statement in Ibadan by the Chairman University of Ibadan chapter, Professor Ayo Akinwole, disclosed that Federal Government has stopped payment of salaries to striking university lecturers
ASUU in the statement warned that  the Federal government should do the needful rather than resulting into  ” weaponizing hunger” which  will not make the Union suspend the strike but is more energized “to fight to have a country and a future for the children of the poor from the traders of collective patrimony in government”
” Weaponizing hunger will not make the Union suspend the strike but is more energized to fight to have a country and a future for the children of the poor from the traders of collective patrimony in government”, it said.
ASUU added, ” if you fund education, the minds of the educated youths will be built to resist being used for criminality but since government has been irresponsive , funding war may have become another opportunity where some people are making millions. They don’t care about the increasing number of out of school children and they are not concerned about what facilities Nigerian children are exposed to.”
The union stated that funding education remains the best way to shape the minds of youths to constructive development of their society, and that government ought to see that more children are getting out of school and are useful pawns to youths fighting back against the society that neglected them.
” If those in government are smart, they should have seen evidences that pumping trillions of naira into fighting insecurity without getting result is a result of not doing the right thing. The smarter way to preserve the future of Nigeria is for the Muhammadu Buhari-led federal government to fund education and sign a decent agreement with the Union to stop the over two months old strike”.
The union stressed that the attitude of President Buhari and his appointees to the strike since it started the ongoing strike over two months showed that they do not have mind to liberate the poor children of the masses as well as give them quality education infrastructure through committed funding and signing a new decent welfare package for ASUU members.  
” ASUU started the ongoing strike on February 14, 2022 to force government to implement outstanding 2009 agreements on revitalization funding, earned academic allowances, proliferation of universities and sign a re-negotiated agreement with the union”